These photo have been provided by former Tereora College commerce teacher Barry Dyksman, who visited Rarotonga at the beginning of the month.


Barry Dyksman as best man at Trevor and Vaine Clarke’s wedding on 22 April 1967. The flower girls are Janette Browne (nee Estall) and Lafala Keenan.

To the right:
3A class in 1967 - back row from left.

 Geoffrey Davis, Tepoave Raitia, Nooroa Teariki, Ken Buchanan, Philip Nicholas, Peter Taripo, Joseph Iosua, Teinakore Vainerere, Fred Charlie. Second row from back, Warrick Jackson, Teremoana Tangiiti, Terepai Teiti, Teokotai Tuaivi, Harry Ivaiti, Carl Price, Solomona Terae, William Powell, Ronald Powell, teacher Barry Dyksman. Seated from left, Tereapii Mokoenga, Melanie Matareu, Tungane Ponia, Vainetutai A, Tungane Tangi, Stella Samuela, Tiavake Ben, Akakoromaki M, Ngametua Matenga, Maryanne Hewett. In front, Mene Kotiau, Rere Mataio, Mii Teariki, Angeline Samuel, Tangata Teio.

To the left: from the left 

Barry Dyksman, Kao Marurai, Robert Woonton, Lester Dean, (student), and teacher Dawson Murray.

Class photo taken in 1966 or 1967 – back row from left.

Mareara Teariki, Tutai Teata, Unlucky Tungata, Mataira Ake, John Manuel, John Teao, Morris Samuel, Maao Vaireka, Nandi Tuaine (Glassie), Nooapii Tangata, Matamaru Tongia. Middle row – Moeroa Samuel, Tangimama Pukeiti, Vaine Putere, Pare Browne, Barry Dyksman, Nootu Rarima, Mere Noo, Makiroa Tauri, Tangitamaiti Vaiimene. Front row – Alice Story, Taamo Teaukura, Rosemarie Taripo, Tupu Arakua, Ake Aitu.

1969 rugby team – back row from left

Tepoave Raitia, Nandi Glassie, Tere Nicholas, George Hosking, Ken Buchanan, Henry Nicholas, George Michael, Teati Mokoroa, Are Tutu Tini, Barry Dyksman. In front Peter Taripo, Joseph Mato, Peter Tuaere, Robert Joe Papa, Tangimetua Tangatatutai, Teina Vainerere, Harry Ivaiti.

He also met up with former teachers Peter Etches and June Baudinet, and was hosted by Trevor Clarke and his wife Vaine. Dyksman was best man at their wedding. Dyksman has happy memories of his time at Tereora, helping to set up the tuck shop, coaching rugby and also assisting the chess club. 
When he returned to New Zealand, he taught at schools right around the country and worked for the education ministry, before retiring about 10 years ago. - Moana Moeka'a

Far Left: Anautoa Rangtira, Tita Enoka kneels down next to the cooked pigs and baskets of taro that were used to feed the many who attended the opening of the Ruatonga Meeting House in 1957. Tita is the husband of Terangi Wichman.

Left: (from left) Tiniura Wichmans' daughter Tina and May Ravetai-Wichman, the wife of Tiniuras' son Robert. Tiniura is the son of Henry Wichman and his last wife Tenii Taraupoko Tekovi

Mangaian performers in the middle of dancing, singing and waving small Union Jack Flags as Lady and Lord Galway passed by.

Mangaian soldiers and men line up to form a guard of honour for Lady and Lord Galway.

On this particular occasion, about a dozen of the island's fittest and strongest men helped winch the truck from the schooner on to the flat boat with two outriggers.

Once the vehicle was secured on the flat boat, the men paddled back to shore, all the while making sure to keep the boat balanced and dodging the reef and coral heads in the lagoon.

Once they reached the shore, a rope was flung out to the boat where more men on the land helped pull the boat and its cargo as far up on dry land as possible.

The truck would then be rolled up on to the flat land where it was reassembled before the entire island would take turns riding on it. 
- Matariki Wilson

These photos taken in the mid 1940s, part of a collection supplied by Wendy Cooper, show just how much effort was put into offloading cargo from schooners and ships that docked outside the reef.

Mangaians became skilled at 'shooting' gaps in the reef on canoes and flat boats, however it was always tricky, especially when the cargo was trucks and tractors.

This sequence of photos shows just how much work was put into preparing for offloading a truck.

 According to Cooper, the truck would have been stripped of its shell and that was transported to the island separately from the core of the vehicle.  

Mangaian men push the flat boat with its precious cargo through the shallow water making sure to keep the boat balanced.

On land more men would get ready to tow the boat and her cargo as far up on to dry land as possible.

Mangaians became very skilful at 'shooting' gaps in the reef to offload cargo from visiting schooners and ships and transporting the cargo back to land.

This article published in the New Zealand Free Lance newspaper between 1942 and 1945 is about the orange industry on the island.